Sams Teach Yourself: Android Application Development in 24 Hours, Fourth Edition

Hour 11. ImageViews and Bitmaps

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

Examining ImageView Bitmaps

Using Bitmaps and Canvas

Introducing Picasso

Images and media can play an important role in creating an exceptional Android app. In this chapter, you look at the details of handling images and bitmaps, including creating bitmaps, using drawing commands, and handling very large images.

Examining ImageView

You learned about different types of views in Hour ...